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AbiWord
Abiword is the default word processor in many versions on Puppy. It is part of the GnomeOffice GNOME Office suite of programs. Not to be be confused with simpler TextEditors text editors like Geany Geany. LibreOffice may be more suitable if you require an advanced office suite.
Installation
AbiWord is included in most Puppies, however to has a missing library. Download and install the libaspell15-0.60.6-10.pet package, more info in the forum thread.
Puppy Menu > Document > Document/Publishing > AbiWord
or
Clicking on Write on the Desktop (when set as default word processor)
Screenshot (fullsize)
AbiWord is capable of many wordprocessing tasks. It can open most industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice, MS Word, WordPerfect, Rich Text Format and HTML. It can save most formats, but can not save in MS Word binary .doc format.
Limitations
Abiword is okay for small documents but becomes unreliable after documents get bigger than about fifteen pages.Also see
UsingAbiWord Using Abiword - more information about the program.UsingAbiWordWithPuppy1 Using Abiword with Puppy 1
Related Pages
Official pageOffical plug-in page.
AbiWord Help
Forum Topics
Abiword and missing libaspell.so.15AbiWord 2.8.2
AbiWord 2.8.6 from Debian for Puppy 5
French help for AbiWord 2.8.6
References
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01727http://www.t2-project.org/packages/abiword.html
Categories
CategoryOfficeCategorySoftware
